Lessons learned from 15 minutes of reading my 3-year-old cat a short story

The story is a simple horror story with about 3 set pieces. The first is a generalised scene setting, the second is a little more intense and shows the character being attacked. The third shows the character, now possessed by a demon, attacking his brother.<br><br>My cat, who will herein be called Puck, has been watching me write this story for the last 2 months whenever she feels like sitting on my lap. She knows the characters names, and knows that there's something creepy going on in it.<br><br>She also knows how to request things - she'll bark at me until I outside, and she'll otherwise communicate with me in the usual cat ways.<br><br>The first scene goes by without issue, she just kind of listens to it.<br><br>When I start into the second scene, she interrupts me - the first time this has ever happened, she's never interrupted me when I was reading before. She knows the story is getting intense, and she won't let me continue. She complains at me, demanding food and attention. She wants me to stop reading the story, she doesn't want to hear this part. I've never had an audience try to interrupt me like that, or demand that I stop. Usually my audience will just listen quietly and passively, and it's kind of stunning to me that Puck knows enough about the story to respond like this.<br><br>When I get to the third major set piece, she gets up and leaves the room. She doesn't want to hear any more. I've scared her off, and I think that's probably the highest praise I've ever gotten for anything I've written - not only does she understand that the story is scary, she wants to get away from it.<br><br>I've been writing for a long time, but I've never really had an audience that was this raw and honest with me. Usually people will be polite and, at worst, say that a story is "meh". Puck isn't like that, she wanted to hear the first part of the story, she didn't want to hear the second or third, and she'll let me know that she's not happy.<br><br>In a lot of ways, Puck is like the perfect writing tutor. She's brutally honest with me, but she's also kind enough to give me a second chance. She might not want to hear the rest of this story, but she still loves me, and she knows that I can write things that she'll enjoy.<br><br>Or, I guess, the lesson I learned is don't read horror stories to cats.